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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

E. W. M. HUGHES. TRUCK END PLATE.

No. 408,030. Patented July so, 1889.

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E. W. M.'HUGHES.

TRUCK END PLATE.

No. 408.030. Patented July 30, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDIVARD \VILLIAM MACKENZIE HUGHES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THEFOX SOLID PRESSED STEEL COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

TRUCK-END PLATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,030, dated July 30,1889.

Application filed April 4, 1889- Serial No. 5306,04 0. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD WILLIAM MAC- KENZIE HUGHES, of Chicago, Cookcounty, Illinois, have invented a new and useful Im- 5 provem ent inTruck-End Plates, of which the following is a full, true, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to an improvement in truck-end plates; and itconsists of atruckend plate made of pressed steel in the shape shown.

My invention will be readily understood from the accompanying drawings,in which- I Figure 1 represents an end elevation; Fig.

2, a vertical section through the center of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a sideelevation of Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a view of my truck-end plate in one of theforms in which it may be applied.

The structure consists of a plate of steel approximately box-shaped withan opening through the center, as indicated.

A represents generally the truck-end plate, having'when in position twolower extensions G G, above which the transom channel-bars rest in thecompleted structure. The central opening 0 has a bent flange Esurrounding it, while the exterior of the plate is bent upward into theflange B, as indicated, which again is turned outward into two shortflanges at C D, as shown. The sides are provided with bolt-holes F, forthe attachment of the transom channel-bars. Practically the structure iscorrugated by reason of the flanges shown, thereby increasing itsstrength. 5

In Fig. 4 the truck-end plate is shown in position in whatis known asthe ordinary diamond frame P, showing the transom chann elbars R inposition.

WVhat I claim as my invention, and desire 40 to secure by LettersPatent, is

l. A truck end plate made of one piece of pressed steel having a centralopening and a flange surrounding the same, and having an exterior flangesurrounding the plate, substantially as described.

2. The pressed-steel truck-end plate A, having an opening 0 and flange Esurrounding the same, and having an external flange B and flanges D C,bent from said flange B, all made of one piece of pressed steel,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD WILLIAM MACKENZIE HUGHES.

WVitnesses:

WV. S. HARTWELL, WM. Voss.

